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   trevort
   Member

   Using a custom budget with a 14 day period, (paid every other friday) when I try to add a budget for a new catagory the start and stop dates are based on the week, so I can only choose January 17th, 24th 31st and so on. but those dont even match the start and stop dates for the budget period in settings. I cant seem to find anyway around this.

   The second issue is there is no longer a way turn off budget averaging, so a yearly expense shows up for every budget period averaged out. Anyway to turn this off or work around it?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Andrey
   Key Master

   In the current 4.0 version we made several significant changes. These changes are related to the app's performance, reliability and usability. In this version budgets can be created based on calendar weeks, months, or years.

   Regarding the first issue, I would suggest you to create a bi-weekly budget. For instance, first two weeks could be February 1-February 14, or it could be February 8-February 21, etc.

   Regarding the second issue, If you don't want yearly expenses to show up in the budget you can always set it as "monthly" or "weekly" budget and set up a particular expense on particular month or week of the year using our new budgeting feature. It is very easy to make a budget in iBearMoney 4.0.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   trevort
   Member

   Sorry about the double post, I hadnt realized the topic had been moved. I will try your suggestions.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   trevort
   Member

   It seems we can only make a bi weekly budget starting on a calendar week (sunday). So If I am trying to base my two weeks budget around my paycheque, which is every other friday how can I bring those in line?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   ILya
   Member

   At the moment the budget is not connected to exact dates. Budgeting is arranged by the periods. Exact dates are taken into account only in transactions.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   fatih_celik
   Member

   iBearMoney is a wonderful budget app. I'm using budget planner feature. In budget section Im choosing monthly. Then I choose start and finish date. Start date only 1 (first day of the month ) and finish date only 30/31(end date of monht).

   I would like budget between 15 March/15 April. Please help me.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Akhat
   

   Replying to @fatih_celik's post:

   Hello. Sorry I missed your post. The idea behind Budget is different. Budget helps you to think of bigger amounts and periods without exact dates. For example, you are going to spend that much 1 week, and that much another week. In this sense you don't need to set your budget between March 15 and April 15, it's too specific.

   If you want to plan something specific, you need to use planned and automatic transactions, which are available from the Transactions tab. It is not related to Budgeting, but more to planning. Please let me know if you need more help on this issue.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   trevort
   Member

   I hate to be a broken record on this topic, but how many people need to ask for this feature back before it happens?

   Using Planned Transactions does not do what people are asking for.

   How is a planned transaction going to tell you how much money you have left that you have allowed for Groceries of misc spending before you get paid again? Planned transactions only helps you when you know you have something specific coming out of your accounts, not for allocating the funds and seeing what you have left... That is what a Budget is for!

   The current budget system has the ability, but why cant we specify when it turns over? Is it that difficult to specify when your two week or monthly budget starts and ends?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Akhat
   

   Replying to @trevort's post:

   trevort, we are currently working on a new reports system, which will give you all the necessary information you have described

   and it is really not easy to specify when your two weeks budget starts because it is tightly connected to the calendar, which we don't want to recode because the app has many specific features, which may confuse many people if we use our own calendar

   Posted 2 years ago #
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    trevort
    Member

    Ok, I will wait and hope... So far the rest of the app is worth it.

    I just dont understand why you went to so much effort adding such an awesome budget view only to limit it in such a fundamental way...

    Posted 2 years ago #

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